{"id":6922,"date":"2015-09-03T12:21:31","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T16:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/?p=6922"},"modified":"2015-09-03T13:40:33","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T17:40:33","slug":"getting-student-perspective-on-school-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/getting-student-perspective-on-school-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple platforms, multiple voices: scenes from a 1:1 rollout"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Collaborative blogging puts students&#8217; voices out front<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hazenmiddlelevel.blogspot.com\/2015\/09\/week-1.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6926\" src=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/hazen_front_page-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"getting student perspectives on school change\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/hazen_front_page-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/hazen_front_page.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Hazen Union School 8th grade student\u00a0Elijah Lew-Smith shared\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hazenmiddlelevel.blogspot.com\/2015\/09\/week-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">the first student post<\/a> of the school year on the school&#8217;s shared Middle Level Blog.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hazenmiddlelevel.blogspot.com\/2015\/09\/week-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Check out his post<\/a> to see this year&#8217;s new initiatives: 1:1 with iPads, a new House structure, and the focus on Project Based Learning, <strong>from a student perspective. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not all.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Hazen Union School, in Hardwick, Vermont, are committed to a powerful, student-centered, tech-rich start to the school year. Among the tools in their arsenal are not just getting student perspective on school change and making sure that voice is center stage, but using technology to communicate with students, family and the community at large.<\/p>\n<h3>Educator-made\u00a0video resources for a 1:1 rollout<\/h3>\n<p>Educators collaborated on producing this fun video about expectations for iPads as part of their communications around the 1:1 iPad rollout kicking off their year:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UEoZgdkYVYE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Blogging publicly, as a team<\/h3>\n<p>Here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/hazenmiddlelevel.blogspot.com\/2015\/07\/welcome.html\" target=\"_blank\">first welcome post<\/a> where the teachers give voice to the why and what of their collaborative, public blog:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hazenmiddlelevel.blogspot.com\/2015\/07\/welcome.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6928\" src=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/hazenintro.jpg\" alt=\"getting student perspectives on school change\" width=\"500\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/hazenintro.jpg 633w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/hazenintro-300x283.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/hazenintro-619x584.jpg 619w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Make it easy to find resources for families and community readers<\/h3>\n<p>Finally, I feel compelled to draw your attention to the use of<strong> labels<\/strong> by these collaborators.<\/p>\n<p>They are making the most of Blogger&#8217;s ability to organize and sort posts by themes. \u00a0As this resource grows, visitors to the blog interested in their progress with the <em>1:1 initiative<\/em> or their experimentation with <em>Project Based Learning<\/em> can simply click on that specific label and view all the posts related to it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hazenmiddlelevel.blogspot.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6929\" src=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/dylan.jpg\" alt=\"getting student perspective on school change\" width=\"500\" height=\"106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/dylan.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/dylan-300x64.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The implications for evidence gathering and reflection in a learning community such as this one are clear. \u00a0Congrats to this group who are taking the time to make thinking and learning visible and to share that journey from the voices of students and educators with our larger Vermont community. \u00a0Go Hazen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collaborative blogging puts students&#8217; voices out front Hazen Union School 8th grade student\u00a0Elijah Lew-Smith shared\u00a0the first student post of the school year on the school&#8217;s shared Middle Level Blog. Check out his post to see this year&#8217;s new initiatives: 1:1 with iPads, a new House structure, and the focus on Project Based Learning, from a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/getting-student-perspective-on-school-change\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Multiple platforms, multiple voices: scenes from a 1:1 rollout&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14,403,405,404,78],"class_list":["post-6922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovative-edtech-classrooms","tag-14","tag-blogger","tag-family-communication","tag-hazen-union-school","tag-student-voice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}